How to Show Headers and Text in the PDF

Last Update: October 15, 2018

UPDATE: We are excited to announce that we have just released the new version of JotForm PDF Editor.

By default, the Header Fields, Text Fields, and Image Fields are not included in the PDF format of a Submission. If you want these fields to appear in the PDF, you have to tick the "Show Headers and Texts" checkbox in the form submissions page.

Is there a way to have a certain field show on every page when printed? In this specific situation, I want a name to be printed as a header on every page of a multi-page application without forcing the people filling it out to type their child's name on every page. I'm only worried about the situation of submissions being printed (because we need to have a hard copy) just to help keep files straight, as there would be a lot of pages from all of the submissions. If it helps, I intend to use the child's name as the session ID so that people can save applications for multiple children.

I have the same problem with the headers not showing on the right table. I see you guys had this complaint back in october 2015 and said you'd submit a request for it to be fixed. Any update on the time frame?

I am having problems with all of my form showing when sent to my email carol@depaulk9academy.comI was asking previously about the end of my form not showing when the form is filled out and submitted. The General policy was not showing and not I cannot see the rest of the questions before that? I checked the show headers in text box. Did not work Is there a number where I can speak to support?Under my Board and Train Contract and Private Contract I can see it in jotform but once client submits the general policy is not coming to my emaildepaulk9academy.com

This is half the solution. finally figured out 3 things. when you activate this setting above it doesn't automatically add the Text fields and other data to the PDF that gets sent to you...... stupid, it should do that Developers..... 2nd once you activate this it will show on the preview but the PDF that gets sent to the email does not include the other fields. You must go into customize PDF and Add every field manually. It honestly took me longer to get this part working in a PDF, that did not have fields Go wherever they wanted to go, than it took to build the Form itself. Oh BTW the Preview button is useless it wont look like anything when actually gets outputted. just keep submitting Forms and getting a new PDF. And the Add text button in pdf customize is pointless it wont keep the Formatting of the field if you copy paste it. just merges everything into one big paragraph.

3rd thing is, when you want to add the fields from the original Form, Text fields for some reason don't automatically Grow to how big they are in the form. you must grab the tiny Little Resize in the right corner (without deleting the field as it's in the same area....) and Make the Red box bigger.... again Developers???? until you do this it will be very small and overlap everything in the builder.

Doing this keeps absolutely none of the formatted I literally just spent TWO HOURS doing. It's not just a matter of having the text show up but having it show up the way I intend for it to with numbers and bullet points to maintain a professional appearance. If we integrate Dropbox for this form, is there a way to make the text show up in PDF form there as well? Having an option in the settings to show text in submitted form when you are creating the form (which you have the option to do with some of your widgets) would solve this issue. May have to go with another service for this type of form if this isn't fixed...

I have followed the steps above & headers & texts still do not print on the PDF form. I checked the "gear" and headers & text box has a check mark.Thank youJennifer PachecoGreater Lewisville Association of REALTORSJennifer@glar.com

Agreed, having the same issue. The only fields that show up in the email the customer receives and the email I receive are "checkboxes / digital signatures etc. Basically anything they have to fill out shows up which is good obviously. However I would like images, headers and text fields to show up as well... Is this possible?

This is not currently working....when you click on show headers and text from the Submissions - it will only display text. Please fix this ASAP please!

nicnatdwd

July 06, 2017 at 08:04 AM

Hi, when i receive the email notification/order it only includes the drop down field information and not the title/heading it is relating to so I am not sure what the order refers to. Is there any way of including these. I have looked into the form settings page but this newer version of JotForm doesnt include the 'show headers and text' option, thanks

I was able to see the headers on the PDF after reading these answers, but now my PDF looks sloppy as the header for one table will be on one page and the table on the next. Can you help in formatting the PDF headers so that each header goes with its specific table?

We followed the advice given above. Indeed, headers/text appear on the form. However, when we log out and then back in, we find that this feature does not "hold." We have to reset the show header/text feature. How do we PERMANENTLY show this change for a given form? Thanks.

When I convert to a PDF, the text boxes disrupts the view of other fields. IE: I gray line is to the left and when I click the box, it becomes gray and interferes with the items behind it. I have tried to edit the fields, enable show-headers etc. with no luck. When I preview the form itself- all is OK. When I embed it into a webpage it is also fine. It's only when I convert it to a pdf is messed up.